The recipient of the presentation brlelly "thanked "the donors and stressed the spirit, of friendliness which had always been shown him by "his colleagues Ju the force, a memory which he declared, he shalt always cherish.
Me, Medvedeft was the hero of police engagement with armed d Speradoes on October 14, 1032, when Tost his right arm in a shooting fray In Hongkew. A brother officer Det-Serut. Wittinsky also was wounded, but the good marksman ship of the police resulted in the mortal wounding of one of the gang~ sters, Mr, Medvedelf, affectionately felled "Di, Watson" by his intimates Was wounded after leading a police to-an alleyway where the desert does "were concealed. The appear~ ance of gangrene on his wound sub-Sequently necessitated an operation, fouowing the severance of an artery his right-arm which was amputat ed below the shoulder, Old China Residents Depart Shanghai, Nov. 7 After a residence of nearly thirty years In China, Mr. OE. Vongehr of the firm of Messrs, 0. E, Vongehr Ca, Fed, Inc, USA," Hankow, retiring" from the East. Mr. Vongehr came out from the United States In 1912 on the stof of the American Consulate in Tientsin where he served for a period of six years, He then joined Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Ca. with whom hho spent nine years, divided between their New York, Shanghai and Hankow OMees. Mr, Vongehr then started his own firm in Hankow in 1932 and has-been' principally engaged in the export of wood all to Amerien from Hankow and the Yangtze ports of Chungking and Wanhsien, where the firm has branch otices, The action of the Chinese Government "in Chungking and creating @ monopoly of the wood all business has lately killed private enterprise in this direction. Captain E, C. Fiy has been associated with Mr. Vongehr in Hankow for some years and Is remaining there to wind the business, 'Mr. and Mrs, Vongehr, who have recently sold their house in the French Concession, are leaving In the 88. President Coolidge today. Mrs. J.B. Vincent, their eldest daughter, ott in the s. Monterey on Sunday last, Mr. and' Mrs. Vongehr were well-known in the American community and will take with them the ood wishes of many China friends fon their retirement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.